"We are living in a world where flow will prevail and topple any obstacles in its way," says Hagel. "As flow gains momentum, it undermines the precious knowledge stocks that in the past gave us security and wealth.
Have conversations with teachers and people you value about course subjects, stands in life, your present challenges and with elders about their past experiences to gain the pleasure of knowing the precious knowledge that is gained by your teachers and elders with a lot of hardship and you are lucky to get it, just by listening with interest and empathy.
The moral of this little tale, as Wood reads it, is that the animals had to die because they forgot that this precious knowledge was merely their own invention; that is, they concealed from themselves "the fictional status of what they call knowledge".
With unprecedented access to the classroom, Precious Knowledge allows the viewer to understand the role of culturally-relevant material and critical pedagogy that challenge the student to read the word, and the world.
It is therefore imperative to increase ethnomedicinal studies in order to preserve this precious knowledge before its extinction [ 5].
In the process, Precious Knowledge reveals the ideological and political fervor afoot in Arizona and underscoring the anti-ethnic-studies ban and anti-immigrant measures, which claims the MAS courses promote the "overthrow of the government" and ethnic resentment.
As one of the most convincing parts of the film, Precious Knowledge also provides plenty of time for anti-Ethnic Studies officials, including former Arizona superintendent of education Tom Horne and and current state superintendent John Huppenthal.
In footage from the film documentary Precious Knowledge, Huppenthal's tendency for inflammatory rhetoric reached a new high when he declared "parts of our neighborhoods" have been "nuclear-bombed by the effects of illegal immigration".
The stakes in Precious Knowledge are somehow even higher: We meet students who emerge as their own advocates to not only defend their right to a decent education, but their very existence and cultural heritage.
Far from any radical agenda, as Tucson Unified School District administrator Dr. Augustine Romero notes, the human portraits unfolding in Precious Knowledge deftly show the MAS program's emphasis on the "idea of love, and not only love for myself, but love for those around me".
Educators, after all, have the sacred trust of passing precious knowledge on to the next generation.
